Achievements and challenges in legume breeding for pest and disease resistance

D Rubiales, S Fondevilla, W Chen… - Critical Reviews in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Yield stability of legume crops is constrained by a number of pest and diseases. Major
diseases are rusts, powdery and downy mildews, ascochyta blights, botrytis gray molds …

Yellow Mosaic Disease (YMD) of Mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek): Current Status and Management Opportunities

GP Mishra, HK Dikshit, R Sv, K Tripathi… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Globally, yellow mosaic disease (YMD) remains a major constraint of mungbean production,
and management of this deadly disease is still the biggest challenge. Thus, finding ways to …

Breeding progress and future challenges: biotic stresses

A Pratap, C Douglas, U Prajapati, G Kumari… - The mungbean …, 2020 - Springer
Mungbean is a short-duration legume crop cultivated in South Asia, Southeast Asia and
Australasia. Its cultivation is rapidly spreading to other parts of the world. Insect pests and …

Biotechnology in wheat breeding

YPS Bajaj - Wheat, 1990 - Springer
Wheat is the second most important cereal crop in the world. From the earlier radiocarbon
dated remains, its existence as a tetraploid wild emmer variety was established around 6700 …

Quantitative DNA variation between and within chromosome complements of Vigna species (Fabaceae)

A Parida, SN Raina, RKJ Narayan - Genetica, 1990 - Springer
Cytogenetical investigations, so far, on the organisation and evolution of the genomes of
Vigna species have proved difficult due to small chromosome size, large chromosome …

Biotechnology and crop improvement

SS Gosal, SH Wani, MS Kang - Journal of Crop Improvement, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Plant biotechnology, a major component of agricultural biotechnology, deals with various
aspects of plant tissue culture, genetic transformation, and molecular biology techniques …

Interspecific hybridization between Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. and V. vexillata (L.) A. Rich. through in vitro embryo culture

P Gomathinayagam, S Ganesh Ram, R Rathnaswamy… - Euphytica, 1998 - Springer
Immature embryos resulting from the cross V. vexillata× V. unguiculata were cultured on MS
medium supplemented with 2, 4-D (2 mg/l) and resulted in embryogenic calli. Thirteen …

Distant hybridization and alien gene introgression.

S Kumar, M Imtiaz, SG Sanjeev Gupta, A Pratap - 2011 - cabidigitallibrary.org
L. Millsp.), green gram (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek), black gram (Vigna mungoL. Hepper),
common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) are among the …

Interspecific hybridization of Brassica napus and B. juncea through ovary, ovule and embryo culture

YPS Bajaj, SK Mahajan, KS Labana - Euphytica, 1986 - Springer
Employing in vitro culture of ovaries, ovules and embryos, interspecific hybrids have been
obtained amongst two important oilseed crops, Brassica napus x B. juncea and their …

Barriers to interspecific hybridization between Vigna unguiculata and Vigna vexillata

A Barone, A Del Giudice, NQ Ng - Sexual Plant Reproduction, 1992 - Springer
Interspecific hybridization between Vigna unguiculata and V. vexillata always failed: no seed
was obtained in both crossing directions. Two different barriers to crossability were found: a …